This book is an outcome of a conference held in Malta September 19-23, 1996 on the theme, "Apprenticeship and VET (Vocational Education and Training)--Changing Policy and Practice in a Unifying Europe." The book considers the reemergence of the concept and practice of apprenticeship in education and training in many of the countries of…

Successful completion of dual enrollment programs prepares individuals to be skilled operating engineers (thoughh apprenticeship) and credits academic achievement with Associate degrees (from participating colleges) which may be applied toward higher degrees as the graduate/journeymen expand their career opportunities. Economic status is not a…

Fifty teenagers in Tigard, Oregon, are engaged in an employer-based high school altnerative entitled Community Experiences for Career Education. The program staff believes that employers are best equipped to identify career education issues for students preparing to enter the work force. The program seeks to broaden career education. (KP)

Contains responses of the National Manpower Advisory Committee to the career education concept, which raised several caveats, more as constructive criticism than in opposition to the concept. (Author/SB)

A study relating agricultural work experience programs to the performance of academically handicapped youth presents the positive results and the problems of the program along with implications for planning and conducting future programs. (MU)

Discusses the theoretical foundation for experiential learning, provides an overview of cooperative education and experiential models, and identifies some professional resources for developing or expanding experience-based learning opportunities. (Available from W. C. Publications Inc., P.O. Box 1578, Montclair, NJ 07042.) (NJ)

The article describes the development, curriculum, and implementation of Project WORTH (Workshops of Realistic Training for the Handicapped), a six-year, four-phase, community-school interaction program, beginning in junior high, to provide mildly handacapped students with responsible work behaviors for successful employment. (MC)

Career preparation for blind and visually handicapped students should be included as part of the high school program. Preparation skills include work skills, basic skills, and awareness of aptitudes, interests, and family/peer influences. The preparation phase culminates in the placement of the student in further education, training, and/or…

Arlington (VA) Career Center offers experience-based career education as an alternative high school program for special education students. Forty-five sites in the community provide a range of work environments and opportunities for practice of occupational skills. (SK)

In an undergraduate Northeastern pharmacy curriculum, students alternate periods of didactic classroom study with the equivalent of five three-month, full-time periods (2600 hours) of practical experience, in addition to a full-time clerkship program. Students work in community and hospital pharmacies and complete the experience with related…

Growing youth unemployment problems in Canada have resulted in the need for government intervention. The Ontario Career Action program was created in order to provide a youth internship program within government agencies that would allow relevant work experience for young people. (JN)